Comment by whalesalad

The remarkable thing to me about Go is that it was created relatively recently, and the collective mindshare of our industry knew better about these sorts of issues. It would be like inventing a modern record player today with fancy new records that can't be damaged and last forever. Great... but why the fuck are we doing that? We should not be writing low level code like this with all of the boilerplate, verbosity, footguns. Build high level languages that perform like low level languages.

I shouldn't fault the creators. They did what they did, and that is all and good. I am more shocked by the way it has exploded in adoption.

Would love to see a coffeescript for golang.